Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — Page 6

POWER IN SILENCE. ajsnaswSjsatee^ aBBSSB»SS«SsasS , * ,> v, iKao™, Ana every day to effeace turns -r, The axle of the earth. f The silent frost with mighty hapd, Fetters the rivers and the. land With universal chain; And, smitten by the slWht sun.j The chain is loosed, the rivers ran, The lands are tree again. O, Source unseen of life and light, Thy secrecy of silent might If we in bondage know, Our hearts, like seeds beneath .he ground, By silent torce of limb unboum ,f I Move upward from below, i ! , • . —Londob Welcome.

ON CHRISTMAS EVE.

“Money for Christmas presents, indeed!” said Mr. Darrow. “That’s all nonqatiHP U “My said Mrp. Darrow, deprecatingly. j “But there’s ati> end t« a raw’s purse!’’ said the head of the family. “Bent, taxes, insurance, school bills, church' expenses, and now on top of the rest, like the last hair, that breaks the camel’s baok> comes a demand for Christmas presents) 1 can’t do it, my dear, and I won’t,” ' “But the children 1” said Mrs. DarroW, who sat with her hands folded in her with a frightened air, as if great cateatrophe was about to befell her. < I To her, Christmas had always been the great festival of the velar, the day when earth and Heaven caihe nearest together—the ■ time to rejoice and be glad with exceeding great jby. “O, the childrenl” said Mr. Darrow shrugging his shoulders, “They won’t suffer! Didn’t I give Addle a doll on, her last birthday? Ami hasn’t Joe got a pair of skates? And i wbat has become of little Bessie?a blocks?. Besides, children should be brought up to know that life isn’t all pjay. I was cash-boy in a store when L was only two years older than Joe!” i “Yes, I know,” said Mrs. Darrow, meekly; but they have icen looking forward all the year to Christmas, and I don’t know how they’ll endure the disappointment,” ] “It won’t hurt ’em,” said Mr. Da"* row, as he buttoned his eofct pockets. “Times are hard; and a min must begin tfr economize somewhere.” Mhj. Darrow sat down, when the heavy footsteps of her lord and master had had ceased to dimk down the frosty pavement, and began to calculate. ' J The noisy singing of/the canary in the gilded cage disturbed her and she hung it in another roopa; the unaccustomed task of trying to make two and two make five drew wrinkles on her forehead and brought a sharp pain be , hdnd her eyes. She had lust so. |uuch housekeeping money allotted to her jgach month, anji,' good economist UhOugTiiire was. lt impossible to save much. Mr. Darrow was a thrifty man, and for every dollar he prided himself upon getting a dollar’s value. “I was going to buy a new wicker hamper for the clothes,’’said Mrs* Darrow, “and a set of hew table napkins. But 1 must darn up the old linen to last a few weeks longer, and do without the hamper, so as to have a few

dollars to buy toys for the children. I C^n’t cheat them out of all their Christmas happiness, pooy little dears!” Mr. Darrow was sauntering comforably up the snowy street the day before Christmas, when he saw his wife, dressed in the little seal brown velvet ‘ hat "and neatly trimmed cloth cloak , which he khew 60 well, enter a tey ' store on the oposite corner. He looked hard a paoncent, 'then followed her. “It’can’t be after all that I said,” he thought, “that she actually means to set me at defiance!” There she was, however, in the crowd of buyere, edging her way patiently up to the counter, handling the cheap tags pending over their relative attractions. Yes! She was actually turning out .her purse. The.shopman was looking around for his wrapping-paper and tissue. Now was the time for him to Interfere. • Mr. Harrow stepped up to ribe.counter abd laid his hand authoritatively on her shoulder, w “What are you*buying, Abby?” said ! Mrs. Darrow started and turned scarlet, like a dethAted buf|l^*. “The lady his selected a Noah’s ark, sir,” said ths shopman, smiling obsequiously, “a work-box and a book df fairy tales.” “Put them back,” said Mr. Darrow J!Jhelady_kaa changed her mmd r She will nqt .take them come, And he led his wife out of the store. “My dear,” he said, grimly, when they were out in the freezing, gray twilight, withtho flakes of snow already beginning to flutter In the air, “I told you I wouldn’t have any of this non--sense.” • “It’s my own money, Caleb, that I saved out of the housekeeeping allowitU“ S 5 f “If the housekeeping allowance is so much too ample for your requirments my dear, I will see that it is cut down,” said When I said that the children were not to have any Christmas toys this year I meant it,” Mrs. DarrQw went home and had a .good cry. How was she ever to make .ruieJAtife ofce? believe that Christmas was not to come for .them this year? . TMayeff dancing about the eittingdroom .Jhien she came!, those.yuld little wB&mmll}” “Bessie wants to go to bed —absolutely now—so that Santa Claus will come quicker.” “He never comes till little baby girls are asleep.” said Bessie, pouting out h"f red ‘lipß| decidedly. “Old, nurse “Mamma!” shouted Joe, “I almost know Santa Claus will bring me a tool chest! Oh, mamma, don’t you wish'it from an opposite doorway, “this morn' ing or to-morrow morning will make ho sort of difference with you. Busii net* has been bad this year, and thert Is no nwafu BUc h tolly as toys. Andthe sooner you make up your mind to that the better!” The children stared incredulously at idm; then they turned their glances to rTYXvui him fit, •

preceived, that she' Mr. Dldvirwt by the Ana after supperfa cheerfbl little he»t<K#ho* red eyes of fire shone vividly thfOugh the darkened room, and whose pipe car* ried the surplus heat into a register in the nursery above. k “Those children not in bed yet?” said Mr. Darrow to himself, as he heard the patter of childish feet, the ring of childish L voices, above. ‘What it the World keeps them up at this time of night?”l ' r j Stepping softly, in his slippered feet, he went up stairs, and peeped In at the crack of the door. Bessie was standing en tiptoe to hang a little, red-striped stocking on a nail beside the cbimney-piece. Addie was helping her, while Joe stood sadly by, ;* , / I j j. “It’s no use, chicks/’ said Joe. “Papa said we weren’t to have any Christmas presents this yejar!” v “I don’t care,” cried little Bessie, excitedly “Don’t you kniow, Joe, it isn’t papa that sends the Santa Claus presents? It’s Santa Claus’ ownself. And he never forgets good ' little girls OEM ChWStmas Eve—does be, Addie? “Ko, Indeed 1” said Adoie, her innoceut sacs pied with undoubung faith. “You* see, Joe! To-‘morrow morning these stockings will be full.” “If you really think so,” said Joe, making: for his own particular bureau drawer, “I may as well hang up mine, too; for I’m sure I’ve tried to be a good boy.” So the little ones crept to bed. Caleb Darrow stood there with a pang of remorseful shame at his heart. Did he not stand in the place of Providence to these children? Had Heaven been as deaf to the prayers of his faith as he was to these little ones, where would he have been? He went down stairs to the room where his wife sat, sadly darning stockings. “Abby,” said he,/‘put on your hat and cloak. It is not 9 yet,” as he saw her astonished glance at the clock. “I wanfto buy'some Christmas toys for the children.” “Cftleb!” she cried, almost incredulously. ~ f ? “I jam ashamed of mysell!” said he. “I have behaved like a heathen turk.”

Then he told her what he had overheard, j “God 1 le Athe little ones!” said she, with trarj in ;her eyes. “They are their own best special pleaders.” And the lasi customers in the toy shops that Christmas eve were Mr. and Mrs. Darrow, buyipg too) chests, dolls, games, Noah’s Arks and music boxes, with fruit and nut§,And bonbons. “They shall have, a rherry Christmas,” said Mr. Darrow, “if I don’t smoke another cigar for a month.” And Mrs. Darrow could only look up in his face and say: “O, Caleb, I’m so happy!” And almost before the crimson glory! of tbe Christian morning irradiated the' east, they heard the children shrieking and shouting with joy, in the adjoining room. J “Didn’t me tell you, Joe?” said Addie, exultingly. /A > “Santa Claus never forgets little children!” cried Bessie, hugging a curly headed doll to her breast. “Dear Caleb,” whispered Mrs. Darrow to her husband, “now w*e can understand what our savior meant when He said, ‘Oh, woman, great is thy faith. Be it unto these even as thou wilt.’ ” v

How He Killed Twonty-six Men.

A correspondent of the New York Sun from Gunnison; Col., tells this story: i * /] Dr. Cockreli, on being askekl whether the repots of killing affrays were not greatly exaggerated, replied that some of them were, while in other cases the truth had never been told. “There is a- man,” remarked the Doctor, indicating a medium-sized, mild-eyed person who stood in the doorway looking inld the billiardroom of the Tabor House, “who has killed twenty-six men, and he is only 27, years of age. He fa H. B. Mastersou, of Dodge City, Kan. He killed his men in me interest of law and order. Once .he shot seven men dead within a few ininutes.” “Bow?” Y:\Vjr ■ “While in a frontier town, news was brought to him that his brother bad been killed by a squad of ruffians just across thu street. Taking a revolver in each hand, for he shoots readily with both, manner” (the Doctor here crossed |iiß right wrist over his left in tjie form of an X), “he ran over to avenge his brother. The murderers became terror-stricken when

they saw him coming, and hastily locked the door. Masterson jumped square against the door with both feet, bursting it open-at the first attempt Then he sprang inside, bring immediately right and left. Four dropped dead in shorter time than it requires to tell of it. The remaining three ran for their horses a vain attempt to escape from, the t°Wn. He followed them up so (Closely that before they reached the outskirts all three had bitten the dusk “At another time,” continued the Doctor, “two Mexican half-breeds, a father and son, became very troublesome in the mining Camps. They were the sharpest shots ib the country, working together with a precision that made them invincible. As soon as one bad emptied thp chambers of his revolvers he would reload under cover of the other. f Many a miner had they murdered and relieved of his outfit and treasure. standing reward of SSOO was oftemd fbr their bodies oritbeir heads. Finally Masterson resolved to kill the hslMireeds. They occupied a cabin in a little clearing in an almost inaccessible place ih the mountains. One morning, hours before daybreak, Masterson crept to the verge of tne clearing! With a repeating rifle in his hands. Hidden by a friendly bush, he reofmed- on a sack which he had brought, from his horse, tha*; he had fastened a niiile away in a glen. Shortly after sunrise the door of the cabin opened wide enough to permit the shaggy head of the old man to protxnae. After sweeping the boundaries brtae clearing with searching eyes, tbft head was slowly withftrawn. In a few minutes the head reappeared, followed by a body with a belt of pistols strapped «ound its wrist and a rifle Slung ovefits shoulders. The old tnan carried ft water pail, at bis side walked theeon, fully aimed. Masterson ©W mah withhis rifle over a path to and from aspring a hundred yards ftps® from' the cabin at

right angles. The father and son were oonyersing earnestly, seemingly unwilling to, the cabin, before the door or w hich they stood for some time* Thirty minutes passed, which seamed hours to Masterson before he bould obtain what he called a favorable shot. Finally the old man made a move which uncovered his son. Masterson took advantage of his opportunity and the young man fell to rise no more. Before the the smoke revealed from whence the shot had come the old man was a corpse alongside of his boy. Cutting tiff their heads, Masterson placed them in his sack and started to exhibit his trophies in order to obtain the promised reward. A twodays’ ride nnaer a hot sun swelled and disfigured the heads so that the were unrecognizable taking advantage of which the authorities refused to pay the reward.”

Married a Zulu.

New York Times. A somewhat singular marriage cere • mbuy took place yesterday in the wedding of Udganaua. better known as “Zulu Charley,” who is attached to a museum here, to Miss Annietta G. Corisini.a white lady of Italian descent. Miss Coreini, who is a music teacher, onlylßyears old, visited the museum last February,and there saw the Zulu for the first time. It was evidently love at first sight. Her visits from that time became frequent, and as the-Weeks rolled by the Zulu began to manifest an affection for her. Mr. Corsini, who is proprietor of a large show-window case house in New York, was greatly opposed to the match,and did everything in bis power to persuade his romantic little daughter to give up the Zulu and think nothing more about him. This only had the effect of deepening the affection that had sprung up between them, and a hasty marriage was agreed upon. An opportune time did not arrive until Wednesday, when Miss Corsini and Charley Denson (which is the Zulu’s American naiue) eloped. She met him this afternoon, and in company with the groomsmen—Charles Richards, a white man, and Usikali. a Zulu—they repaired to the residence of Rev. J. Page, No. 318 Union street, when the ceremony was performed. The clergyman made no objection to marrying the couple,and the Episcopal service was read. The minister, it appears, got somewhat mixed during the ceremony, for he addressed the best man Usikali and the bride all the questions. “Usikali,” said be, “do you take this woman for your wedded wife?” The Zuly smiled, but did not answer. “Then, in the name of God,” continued the minister, “I pronounce you man and wife. After the ceremony Mr. Richards, who was the other groomsman, informed Usikali that he, instead of “Zulu Charley,” had been married to the bride, Usikali was very much worked up about it, and jumped around the room shoutiDg: “I’m not Charley. 1,11 be if I’m married.” The minister upon being informed of the mistake he had made, remedied it by performing another ceremony. The newly-married couple then left the house and repaired to the museum, where the Zulu took part in the performance.Thefyouug lady is very handsome.

A Steer That Races.

New York Herald. L. Haight is interested in a steer of alleged pnenomenal powers. The steer is in Pennsylvania, but Mr. Haight does not care to say exactly what part, because some speculator might get at the steer and reap a harvest. Mr. Haight says: “He is what you might call a remarkable animal, and was born to Trot. When he was a little calf, instead of jumping and gamboling' like other calves, he would set his head, and spin off on a square trot for a quarter of a mile. This created some comment, because he made big lime, and he was encouraged. He is three years old now and as gentle as a lamb, but he caa pull a sulky over a mile iu four minutes, and just get warmed up. His name is Novelty Boy, and he is strong on a three-mile trot. He has got big speed in him.” .Mr. Haight produced a photograph of Novelty Boy, standing between the shafts of a light racing sulky. His forelegs are very short and his back long, but the under part of his body curves up, giving him the gray-bound build. He is driven in light racing harness with a colar that opens at the lower end. He is steered by two reins attached to the base of his horns. Novelty Boy is pure white.

Vanderbilt.

Gath. The general impression among hi 9 fellow-citizens about William Vanderbilt is that, on the whole, he is a remarkable product, considering his bringing up. His father was a heartless old man, yet with strict views of business morality as speculators go. He would water almost any stock as regularly as a milk-man his pail, but he would not let Bill leave work on his Staten Island farm any afteroon in the year, ami if be caught him in New York he always horse-whipped him. In this way the son carries out thescriptua! prophecy ot respecting his father’s memory. Old Vanderbilt thought Bill war nearly grown at forty, let him take the hay-seed out of his hair and come 1o New York, and go into the railroad office as a clerk. By this time Bill had been married, and had a considerable family, so that he did not begin to sow his wild oats. The old man’s confidence grew in him more and more, until he finally left that huge railroad estate to this son, only letting him do as he pleased with his bretheru and sisters. Considering the immense temptation', Vanderbilt has been a good citzeD, and he has recently shown inflexibilty in his contests with, other corporations. There is not much belief that Vanderbilt (fares much about New York City, but on the whole he is good deal better man with such an immense property than if he was purely a speculator and restless. He has no desire for show, and proceeds in everything methodically. His big{ house on Fifth avenue presents a very different appearance from most ho'uses in America. Instead of rushing it up, so as to get inside of it at once, they are working as slowly on it as If they were building a mousoleum for a man not yet dead. Meantime the house Vanderbilt occupies at present is going to be a clubhouse, and that seems to be the fate of most of the big mansions on Fifth avenue. . „

THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

The Different Varieties of Our National Bird. There are several varieties of eagles in the United States, but not all that are commonly called byvdifferent names are entitled to the separate distinction. The largest is Audubon’s “Bird of Washington” or Washington eagle, a huge bird that has apparently been seen by few persons but the great naturalist himself, and which inhabits the region of the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi. Its spread of wings is over ten feet. It rarely comes to New New England; but Dr.Wood.the Connecticut ornithologist,iu his “Birds of Connecticut” (publisned in the Times of 1861), describes one that was caught in a steel trap, in the East Windsor meadows, just after a Connecticut river freshet had left thousands of dead fish on land. On these he was feasting, in company with two “bald eagles,” whom he greatly surpassed in size. He was killed, as was supposed,after being caught, by a bl#w on the head with a club; but he recovered on being thrown upon the grass, and flew away.~He was nearly four feet long and his spread of wings was ten feet. The “national bird” of our country is]a so-called (but; improperly so-called) bald eagle—a bird whose bead is as well supplied, proportionately, with feathers as any*part of his body; but on the head these are white, while the rest of the bird, except the neck and tail, is quite dark. The female (who iB always largest in birds of prey) often measures three feet four inches in iength, with a stretch of wings between seven and eight feet. It isjincorrectly described in our cyclopaedias as the “largest of the fishing or sea eagles.” To say nothing of Audubon’s great bird, there is in Greenland (and in some parts of Europe)- a sea eagle a little larger than the bald specices. The bald eagle (not uncommon here) builds on cliffs and great trees a nest of coarse sticks, which is used by the same pair, ii undisturbed, for very many yeais (they will live to the age of liiO or 140 years); and in this latitude they lay their eggs after the middle of January, and hatch out about the middle o: February. The diversity of color between the young and the adults occasions mistakes in naming them, and leads to tbe idea that they are “sea eagles” “black eagles,” “gray eagles,” etc. Dr. Franklin objected to the adoption of the eagle as our National .bird, because of its predatory habits, and suggested the turkey instead. The golden eagle (which may be the kind that was shot near Riverton, and, if so, it is a rare and valuable bird for ornithologists) is seldom seen in' Connecticut; but the Times has published accounts of the shooting of three of them duriDg the last thirty years in this Btate. It is a magnificent bird, belonging in Europe as well as the United States; is about as large as the bald eagle, and derives its name from the golden red feathers on its bead and neck—the rest of its plumage is a rich dark brown. It lives about the great lakes, and Upper Misissippi, aad to a less extent among the White and Green mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont. Tnere are about seventy species of eagles; and even of those in America we canpot give all the names or varieties. A dark eagle, pot quite so large as the bald, is common in Connecticut. One ferocious kind, found in Mexico and on the Isthmus, is the harpy eagle. The osprey is improperly classed among the true eagies.

An Unnamed Monster. The finding of tne remains of a large sea serpent in the marl pit of O. 0. Herbert at Marlboro, N. J., last week, was supplemented on Monday by the discovery of the remains of another one/ The find of Monday was somewhat decomposed, and only two large tusks and portions of the jawbone of the reptile were found preserved, the other bones crumbling to pieces when exposed to the air. The bones found last week are all well preserved, and the tusks are remarkable for their size and fine natural polish. Prof. Samuel Lockwood gives the following description of the reptile: “It was a monster of great bulk. It had two paddles well forward and two oehind, tne* body being short and stout. The bone 9of the paddles, from their size and solidity, indicate extraordinary propelling power. The tail was stout, long and serpentine,but a little flattish, thus affording great aid in propulsion by a sculling piovement. The neck was long, and yet thick enough to support the head high out of water while the monster was engaged in devouring its prey. The huge jaws werearmed with tusks, which were more formidable than those of the crocodile. The lower jaw was ; very singular iu structure,and had a joint like an elbow. In the act of swallowing the reptile could enlarge its gullet by means of the elbow joint The act of swallowing was necessarily slow, and the reptile no doubt would have had great trouble in retaining in its mouth its struggling prey if it had not been for a supplementary jaw which was used as a grapnel. This was armed with small teeth, which were curved in shape and very sharp. As the large jaws, with their, fgreat tusks, were being opened so as/ to obtain a new bold the little grapffel jaw held the struggling prey fast, and the movements alternated until the fish or other prey was forced down the great throat.”. The only bones of this monster reptile of the aute-diluvian age known are those found m the marl pits of Mr. Herbert, and no name has been found for it by the scientists.

# »- And She Fainted. Burlington Hawkeye. . Some women never can faint in the proper manner nor at the right time. Anil if a woman cannot bring about this happy combination of time and manner and swoon, she had better get along without swooning. Now, about two weeks ago, one Sabbath evening at Bradford, Pa., the best-behaved and most thoroughly moral town in the oil country, a city not given to fainting or other unseemly displays during religious services, the Methodist Episcopal conference was in session and its ministers were conducting service. Just after the ordination of deacons a woman in the gallery fainted. Now, while tbe ordation of deacons is a most holy, solemn and deeply impressive ceremony, it is not widely thrilling and exciting, like the initiation scenes in the

tons of Malta, and it is' nothing to faint over. But this woman fainted, and a beautiful faint she made of it. It seems that she was sitting in the front seat In the gallery, and Slid straight forward on to the. floor, thrusting her unconscious 1 feet right through the gallery rail. They must have been a startling pair of feet to view, for the moment they were observed by the congregation ; tbe panic -.-stricken worshippers raised the cry that the gallery*was giving way, evidently mistaking the swaying feet for displaced columns or bracket braces. In the most worldly manner the congregation made a rush for the doors, and in panic the saints trod the sinners under foot, and the sinners walked along on the backs of the saints, according to the respective size of saint and sinner, and being animated by the desire to get out from under the threatening shadow of those overhanging feet, In the midst of the confusion and terror, one of those unconfined lunatics whose mission is to say and do the most idiotic things under the guise of sanity, sprung through a window and shouted fire, and unfortunately escaped alive. That brought the, fire department and a miscellaneous crowd of a fewthousand men and boys swarming around the church, and although Chaplain McCabe began singing a hymn at the top of his rather penetrating voice the panic could not be stayed and the people got out, but there wasn’t a fall bonnet in the congregation fit to look at. And how badly this woman must have felt when she realized how great a ruin she had wrought by fainting in that ridiculous manner, sticking through the gallery rail like a sawbudk hanging on a picket fence. And bow the women with ruined hats will glare at her, especially those women who can’t afford t 6 buy new one. A woman who is given to fainting ought always to pick out a suitable place before she lets go; and no woman whose feet are sufficiently startling in their development to throw a congregation of worshipers into a panic has any right to faint at all. * 1 * — , Uncle Samuel. New York Letter. His practice of conversing with his friends in whispers is nothing more than one of his precautions he takes to preserve his strength. Mr. Tilden has a pleasant voice, and plenty of it, when he. chooses to use it; but it has long been his belief that to a man so busy with other men as he has been, the almost continuous use of the vocal organs, was one of the most fatiguing of practices. He therefore acquired the habit of talking in a very low voice, or even in a whisper. There is undoubtedly a good deal of truth 'in his theory, but he has carried it to such a length as to include it. among his old bachelor fussiness and crochets, of which he has a great number. For instance, he has long been noted among his acquaintances for his antipathy to umbrellas and canes. He never carries either article. He has been heaid to say that if he gets his hat or coat wet, he had rather throw 1 them away and procure new wearing apparel than be bothered with an umbrella, Another peculiarity of his (to descend to the minutest of trivialities) is that to every new pair of trousers he has a pair of new suspenders firmly and thus avoids a good deal of i)Other with buttons.

All great men have their little weaknesses,, and the particular weakness of Mr. Tilden may be said to be in tbe direction of clothes. He has a good many of the English ideas on the subject of dress, and, like the aristocratic sprigs abroad, who array themselves in sfx or seven different suits a day, redressing for every meal, donned one sort of conventional attire for the hunt another for the sea-side, etc., Mr. Tilden’s vivid notions of the appropriateness of bis apparel for the varying duties of the day, Latterly, however, he has not been so scrupulous in this r.-gard as he used to be before overtaken oy the feebleness of old age. But he has always been one of the best patrons of the tailor in New York. I was shown the other day, the bobks of a very fashionable up-town tailor for 187 i, and Mr. Tilden’s name appeared in them for bills amounting to $390 in that one year. In his relations with tradespeople Mr. Tilden may be described as one of the best patrons In America of the, book-publisher, the tailor and the grocer. He is a master of menu. Dining with him is a fine art. He loves the pleasures of the appetite; thinks the fat of the land and the fruit of the vine were made to enjoy, and has them in profusion. He is at the same time scrupulously regardful for his health, and, if it be not too Earadoxical, he may be called a sort of ygienic high-liver. He is a believer in the nutritive qualities of alcqhol. He seldom or never dnnks whisky.but is a connoisseur in wines, and uses them freely. After Eighteen Years. Marietta Journal. When Mr. Elijah Walraven enlisted in the Confederate army iu 1863, he left behind him a beautiful young wife and three children. When he returned home at the close of the war, his wife 'aud three children were nor to be found. He learned that she had been persuaded, when the Federals occupied this country, that her safety was in going North. For years no tidings came of her wherebouts.and,not knowing whether she was alive or dead, he instituted proceedings for divorce, which was granted. Mr. Walraven married a worthy lady iu this couDty, who bore him one child, and she died. Iu the meaq time his first wife, learning of the divorce and marriage oi her husband in Georgia, married a Northern man, who alter a brief married life died. She married the third husband, a Mr. Beckner. He sickened and died. One child, as the result of this union, was left her. Her three children by her first husband grew up and married well off, and they opened . correspondence with tbeir father. Last February their lather paid them a visit to their home in Indiana. While there he met tbe wife of his first love. The meeting wss a joyous one, and old times were talked over and mutual explanations made. The result was they became reengaged. Mr. Walraven returned to his home at Kennesaw in this county, and according to agreement, Mrsr Beckner arrived at Kennesaw last Thursday. There she was met by Mr. Walraven, who had license ready and forthwith the happy couple were reunited after a separation of eighteen years. v

JOCOSITIES. ‘ —"n —i-irjm aim ! m From her Am* And showed the big mole on her cheek* A hoy whose folks iived In Milani L To a little dog tied a tin -can. ■*/ He expected some sport, Bnt the dog veered to port, , 1 ■ And upset two young girls and Kiss me quickly, kiss me nice— Kiss mejoitce, sweet, kiss pie twice,. Kiss metoften, kiss me long; *■ > i Kisapne.boldly, is my song. v , , Hold me tight in fond embrace, Lip to l}p and face to face; Sparkling eyes as blue as skies. Speaking love that never dies. Roguish dimples on my cheek, ' ■ • < Blushes playing hide-and-seek; Hdney kisses!often given; Pleasures rivaling blissful heaven. • •),

A good husband, like a good burner, never goes out at nights. * A pillar of the church, to be’ of anyservice, should, like any other pillar, have capital. The association of eooks in Boston i# very particular in the construction of its consti ution and bile laws.. Teacher to a small bov: “ Wbai does ■ the proverb say about those, who live in glass houses?” Small boy: '“Full down the blinds.” The worst kind of rheumatism is the spare-roomatism. Many an unhappy guest hip crowded between its joy sheets and died of it. The story that Eli Perkins was suffering from a cancer in his cheek is denied. The facts are that the cancer came atound, and, after one look at Eli’s chqek, went away add died of a broken heart :

A New York man recently dreamed that he. was a Texas desperafiq in a town threatened by Indians,and when he woke up he found that he hadjcrawled under the bed. • : The other day an Indianapolis woman horsewhipped her divorced husband. He felt as good as though ho had got married again, and wanted to know wherein it profited a man to get a diyotce, if this sort of a thing was to be kept up. A young O J City lady recently visited New York, and when she returned home related to her friends how she stopped at a “palatable hotel and went up and down stairs in a cultivator.” Her parents should cultivate her. 1 Arabella (on her toes in a ebair clutching convulsively at her skirt)—“Oh* Bridget! A mouse! a mouse! Come and catch it quick!” Bridget: “Shure,inum there’s no hurry. If thip one gets away. I can get plenty more fore ye, mum” “Will you have it rare or well done?*? said Commissioner Brenan to an Irish-t maD, as he was cutting a slice of roast beef. *‘l love it well done ever since I am inthis country,” replied Pat, “for it was rare enough I ate it ia Ireland,”^ “Ma, haven’t I been a real good boy since I’ve been going to Sundayschool?” “Yes, my lamb,’l answered the maternal parent, fondly. “And you trust me now, don’t you, ma?” “Yes, darling.” Then,” spoke up the little innocent, “what makes you keep the preserves locked up in the pantry tbe same as ever?” Essence of Jackass: You sat behind us at the Museum Saturday evening.' You kept your mud-spanking old hoof tun king away on the floor, beating time to the music. If you’ll call at this office we’ll take an ax-handie and beat the time for the whole opera on your addled head. Now, you know how fond we are of you. , , A prominent citizen was being pro’pelled homeward by a faithful servant iate one night last week, when they suddenly came to a halt. “Whassher matter now?” asked the prominent cinzen. “Dar’s a man dead drunk on de sidewalk.” “Gimme a famp post ter bold up, and you dragsh off misherable drunken beasht byhish legshs.”' Burlington Hawkeye: “Minnie” wants to know “who sets the fashions?” We don’t want to boast, dear, or appear unduly conceited,or that sort of thing, but the fashion of wearing a spring ovefeoat, flavored at the elbow with benzine,clear through the Christmas holidays and along into next February, we set that one “ourself.” We don’t know who set the others, as that is the only one we are deeply interest* ed in just now.

The Tarantula Can Kill.

Little Rook Special. Oliver C. Waddell, who recently removed to this State from Texas, settling along White river, in Stone county, was fatten yesterday by a tarantula. He was on a hunting expedition in the mountains and had cam ped under a large pin** tree. Some time during the night the insect crawled in between the blankets which enveloped him as he lay before the fire, and hit him twice,once on the finger and again on the arm near tLe elbow.. He wasawakened bj 7 a tingling sensation iu that part of his body, and, rousing: himself, discovered the cause and succeeded in killing it. It was as large as the of an ordinary man. Waddell’s hand and arm began to swell rapidly, and before he could get to the nearest house, some four or five mile® away, the poison had spread to, ail parts of his body. It was some timebefore he could get medical skill, and when the physician arrived Waddell was found to be beyond hope. He lingered for some time,however, dying in the afternoon. The case is a singu* lar one, from the fact that it proves' that the tarantula is capable of inflicting a deadly wouud.

Curious Facts.

The natives of India say that the ba\ a bird lights up her nest with fireflies. The tomato plant is avoided by earwigs, caterpillars, aphides, slugs and snails. Thepart of the human body which, shows the greatest variety of color isthe iris of the eye. A wire 400 feet long can be made from one grain of silver. Such a wire is finer than human hair. King Alfred used to measure time by a device of twelve candles, graduated so as to burn two hours each. A large boa in tbe zoological gardens in London, swallowed a blanket, and disgorged it in thirty-three days. From animal remains it is concluded that Great Britain was at bne time connected with the mainland, and the English channel was dry.